The book has been completely revised and expanded with pages and pages of all new information and insight about the demise of World Championship Wrestling. If you liked the first edition of the book, you’ll love the new 10th Anniversary Edition!

Am curious if you correct a lot in it. I remember the original version, you had reported stuff that was accepted as “fact” in 2004 like how Bischoff was running the AWA and came up with Team Challenge Series and such, just am looking forward to a much more detailed look at things.

Since you ordered it thru Amazon it will arrive to you unsigned, but I’m sure R.D will be offering signed copies here on the site after the book is published in October, or he’ll be glad to sign your copy if you see him in person.

But only if you give him the secret phrase which is…Honky Tonk Mailman delivers in rain & sleet but not in the cold. Then you must take 3 steps backwards and RD will lay the signed book at your feet as you bow to him and leave silently.

I got if off of amazon because that is what the link is on this page, also it helps the site out, and I can put it with the rest of my wrestlecrap books and my wrestlecrap archive and all over wrestlecrap dvd collection.

I hope they fix why WCW died. It was not cause of Kellner. WCW was long dead by the time he put them out of their misery. WCW was losing millions which means it failed as a business. Its audience got cut in half in an extremely short amount of time.

I actually originally thought that to if it helps; Rereading it, I get why I got that impression, but I see what they meant better now: Kellner WAS the official cause of death in a way, but WCW was a slowly dying animal, taking bullet wound after bullet wound. Kellner was simply the final bullet.

By the way, finally preordered and am going for the one day shipping to boot. I’m sure it will be worth it…

Nah, they just said “the final blow came from (Kellner)” and pointed out how, after all the stupid crap that brought the company to its knees, it was some guy (who by the way is a total dick who was responsible for axing a lot of GOOD shows as well like Animaniacs in order to pander to teenage girls) who had no knowledge of the product and simply yanked it because the ratings sucked and he didn’t like wrestling. It would be idiotic to suggest that Kellner was solely to blame because there’s no way he’d have dropped the show in his first week had its business and ratings still been strong, he’d have given them time to find a new home. And they’d have found a new home pretty easily if their reputation hadn’t already been sent down the toilet over the past three years.

Color me VERY excited for this release. I’ve read the original, no joke, something like 11 different times. I am absolutely fascinated by the way WCW went from basically being able to print their own greenbacks one year to bleeding money at such an astonishing pace the next year. So much talent, so many resources, and so-so-so-so-so-so many egos.

as of today, amazon is now offering prime members a $1 book or kindle credit if you take slower shipping with your order. so not only can you help the site by clicking and buying via their amazon links, but do enough orders, you can get enough credit to get the book for free 🙂 (credit is valid through end of the year, so you don’t have to redeem it at the moment)

I got the book delivered early (last week) and I’ve already read it. And I think it’s great, though my favourite line is gone (the one about Bischoff not only throwing the first punch but kicking McMahon in the ass and punching him in the balls), but I really enjoyed the new additions.

But there are two things:

1) I don’t think the new material always meshes with the old stuff. Maybe I wouldn’t notice it if I hadn’t read the first one, but there’s a few cases where something is expanded upon, then later the original text is kept in tact, so there’s repetition. There was one very noticeable example, but unfortunately I can’t recall it at this moment.

2) I enjoy some TNA stupidity as much as the next guy, but that chapter feels really tacked on. All you do is make fun of TNA, without really relating it to the mistakes of WCW. With that format, you could have easily just done one for the WWE.

But yeah, great stuff! Maybe next you guys could do a full Monday Night War book.

I ordered it on Amazon.com but ended up cancelling because I can get it a lot cheaper (with shipping taken into account) on Amazon.co.uk next month. Regardless, I’ll definitely be buying it as I’ve read the original cover to cover at least three times.

Yo RD, I’ve loved the book so far and think most of what was added is fantastic, even though some of it could have been inserted in a bit better. I haven’t read all of it yet, but I did just want to comment on one thing that did kind of bug me in the 2000s chapter:

I’m not really sure where anyone would get the idea that Bret vs Vince was laid out to make Vince into a sympathetic babyface. The whole build-up of the match painted Vince McMahon has a vindictive heel who was deserving of a major ass kicking (as a lot of people actually feel about Montreal) and the match was laid out to deliver exactly that. The only issues the match really had was that it went on for way too long and that they couldn’t really have a legit match between the two considering the shape Bret was in at that point. It was a gang beating, but that was because they wanted the match to be long but had to book around Bret’s inability to do much of anything at that point. It was a booking mistake, yes, but I don’t think it was meant to make us feel bad for Vince.

Hi, I really enjoyed the book the first time and I thought the 10th Anniversary Edition was amazing! I lived through the whole WCW period and it was fascinating (but terribly depressing) to read how badly the whole thing was messed up. I always preferred WCW to WWF/E because I thought the match quality in WCW was better than in the other company, and WCW seemed to put more emphasis on good wrestling rather than showy gimmicks. For the main part, anyway. At least until the late-90s, when Nash took charge. I still watched both shows of course.

Also, I’m a big fan of your Wrestlecrap books and I was wondering if you had any plans to update them? A load of really crap stuff has happened in wrestling in the last 10 years that you could comment on, including Vince’s interviews with the US Congressional Oversight Committee, which was basically a farce. WWE has done a lot of terrible gimmicks in the last few years, and a lot of its shows have being pretty awful. They just get away with it because of their monopoly.

I got your original book many years ago and it revived my interest in pro-wrestling, because reading your book and remembering how much I enjoyed watching WCW Nitro on TCM(here in Australia it ran on “Turner Classic Movies” LOL!) when my parents had Optus Vision. WWF was on rival cable network Foxtel at the time, so this was my weekly hit of Pro-wrestling at home while I’d go over to my Foxtel owning friends place to watch Raw and later Smackdown.

Your first edition brought back so many memories, and was such a trip down memory lane for me. It was so cool reading about what happened behind the scenes for the first time. I was such a Goldberg fan and I was genuinely pissed off when Scott Hall tasered him to end “the undefeated streak”… I kept on asking myself “Why the heck did they do that? Goldberg is their biggest star!”. Reading your first edition finally shed on some light on it for me and it was such a humorous book, proving at least in the wrestling world that “fact is funnier, sadder and more embarrassing than fiction”! I lost my copy of your first edition of the book sometime ago.. moving from place to place. I frequently read it many times over, many good laughs, many good/bad/sad/embarrassing WCW memories.

I finally decided “I loved reading it, carried it with me everywhere I went sometimes…. I better get another copy and read it again”, so now the 10th anniversary edition is coming in the mail next week! I can’t wait to read it again! Especially with whatever new content you added to it!